“Throughout your life on earth, seek diligently to fulfill
the fundamental purposes of this life through
the ideal family. While you may not
have yet reached that ideal, do all you can through obedience and faith in the
Lord to consistently draw as close to it as you are able. Let nothing dissuade
you from that objective. . . . If for the present, that does not include sealing
in the temple to a righteous companion, live for it. Pray for it. Exercise
faith that you will obtain it. Never do anything that would make you unworthy
of it. If you have lost the vision of eternal marriage, rekindle it. If your
dream requires patience, give it. As brothers, we prayed and worked for 30
years before our mother and our nonmember father were sealed in the temple.
Don’t become overanxious. Do the best you can. We cannot say whether that
blessing will be obtained on this side of the veil or beyond it, but the Lord
will keep His promises.
Elder Richard G. Scott, “First Things First,” Ensign, May
2001, 7.
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